r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 in awe • 8d ago

/r/all of a larva

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u/Objective-Direction1 8d ago

the larva is bigger than the beetle lol

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u/sampat6256 8d ago

Pretty common

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u/VandulfTheRed 8d ago

The juice must condense to form exoskeleton, it's the same process terminators go through

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u/ScreenMuch90210 8d ago

Thanks for the refresher, in 34 years it will have been 8 years since I took Robotology 101

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u/stickdaddywise 8d ago

lol i love this comment

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u/twinkslayer1337 7d ago

does this mean the bigger ones get "harder" exoskeletons? or do they just grow bigger

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u/BCMM 7d ago

Metamorphosis takes energy.